Wycombe Wanderers (Home) 26.07.2025

Inside two minutes, Heung-Min Son and Wilson Odobert worked a good move down the left and the latter set up a shooting chance for the Spurs captain from the corner of the box, but he bent his shot high over the bar.  A pull back from Odobert on the right gave Richarlison a shot just inside the box, but he didn’t make a clean contact and dragged the ball wide of the keeper’s right hand post in the eighth minute, then Sonny was brought down on the left corner of the box with Pedro Porro firing a free-kick but straight at van Sas.  Richi had another shooting opportunity in the 12th minute when Porro’s ball beyond the Wycombe left back gave Odobert the space to pull the ball back, but a block stopped Richi’s effort reaching the goal.  Pedro was again involved with a firm pass into Wilson, who skipped to his left and let go a low left-footed drive that van Sas got down to but could only push out to his left, where Pape Matar Sarr was the first alive to it and slid the ball into the net from just wide of the post.  Spurs had been pressing hard and the goal wasn’t surprising, as the play had been mainly towards the Wycombe goal.  

Twenty minutes into the match, Lucas Bergvall played a great ball over the top to find Porro, who got the ball stuck under his feet after getting behind the left back, but he got a hot away that was blocked.  Pedro then crossed for Richarlison to go for the header, but couldn’t quite get there.  Spurs won a corner that Sarr flicked on at the near post and Luka Vuskovic poked a volley at goal, but it was kicked away.  Porro was heavily involved with a fine long forward pass to Odobert, but his shot was on the stretch and was saved by the keeper low to his right.

Wycombe surprisingly equalised in the 32nd minute, when Quitirna hit a shot from 20 yards out and it took a deflection to squirm through Brandon Austin.

The Tottenham team was quite fluid, with a three at the back being played when Porro went forward and Vuskovic also had free rein to move forward.  Both the front three and the midfield were all interchanging positions.  However, the goal gave Wycombe a bit more ambition and Cristian Romero did well to flick Tilley’s cross away with Udoh coming in behind him.  The corner was played to the far post, where a Wycombe player had a free header that he put over the top.  The half ended with Spurs attacking as Odobert put in a fierce cross across the face of goal and then Richi got in on the left side of the box, but his cross drifted over the bar.

Tottenham almost hit back straight away, with George Abbott’s ball to the left setting Son in, nut-megging 22 and crossing out to the back corner of the box, where Porro fired in a shot that took a deflection and went over off the top of the bar.  Pedro then was involved with Westergaard, who was holding him and the Tottenham right back then swung an arm back that caught the Wycombe man in the face and was warned by the ref, although the free-kick had been given Tottenham’s way.  Porro then swung in a corner that again came off the top of the crossbar before going behind.  The game was quite open now and Tilley’s run forward in the left hand channel flew off Vuskovic and dropped just wide with Austin back-peddling.    

Just after the hour Richarlison and Odobert made way for Oliver Irow and Tynan Thompson.  When Cristian Romero won the ball off Quintirna halfway inside the Wycombe half, despite having his shirt pulled, the ball was laid off to Pape, who played it wide to Thompson on the left,  He returned it with a low pull back and despite the ball being stuck under his feet, Sarr managed to squeeze a shot from six yards out past the keeper to make it 2-2.

Thompson was showing great confidence on the left, knocking a short pass forward for the over-lapping Ben Davies, whose pull back to Son was curled at goal, but it didn’t have enough on it to beat the keeper.  Udoh then played a ball through for Tilley to run onto, but just left of the box he lifted his shot too high before Thompson came inside off the left to shoot, but the ball curled away from the goal.  Porro went down with a cut above his eye after a challenge from Tilley, which wasn’t the first time that the Wycombe forward had been involved.  As play continued on the left, in the right side of the box Taylor Allen caught Porro with an elbow off the ball.  

After Thomas Frank made eight substitutions around the 77th minute, Tynan pressed hard to win the ball 30 yards from goal, took a pass from Callum Olusesi and then dragged a shot from the left, just wide of the far post, with options of Spurs players looking for a low ball across goal in the middle.  The energy and skill of the young  Spurs subs were drawing a lot of free-kicks from shirt-pulls as the Wycombe players couldn’t keep up with them.  When Luca Williams-Barnett darted forward, Leahy tripped him inches outside the box.  The Tottenham forward got up and took the free kick but hit it into the wall.    

A useful exercise with some unnecessary aggressive attention handed out to Pedro Porro, but most of the team came through unharmed, although Rodrigo Bentancur had to pull out before the game because he was ill.  The younger players came on at the end of the match and looked dangerous, giving the team some impetus and running Wycombe ragged, so there were valuable minutes in the legs of the players as they aim to peak for the start of the season.